STORY #1

Story #1 is a reckless, reflective, live thinking-through of how and why we construct narrative.

"Imagine a bullfight without the bull: it would be a set of aesthetic manoeuvres, pretty twirls and pirouettes and so on – but there’d be no danger. The bull, crucially, brings danger to the party... that’s what the real is: the tip of the bull’s horn.”Tom McCarthy

We promise no less than 120 minutes.

We promise real fictional characters.

We promise a plot.

We promise a surprise twist.

We promise a rupture.

We promise an ending.

We promise a rupture.

“Story #1 is like a live grenade thrown at television: a thrilling exploration of truth, fiction and the strange space between. Funny, tender, shocking and sly, it’s an adventure in being an audience that asks the only real question: what happens next?”

Jonathan Wakeham, Screenwriter

As our first collaboration, this project was an invitation Greg and I made to ourselves to create something very unlike what we'd tackled previously in our solo work. Despite having made a lot of contemporary performance that dispenses with narrative, we realised neither had much basic experience of committing to constructing a story from start to finish, and so that provocation was ticklish. This is the result.

Made with a seed commission from Ovalhouse

This performance contains explicit sexual content and images and is therefore recommended for ages 18+